Orthodox saints and name days on March 4

Name days on March 4

Gerasimos, Gerasim

Saints and feasts of March 4

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  Gerasimos of the Jordan

  Venerable, Γεράσιμος

  St. Gerasimos was a fifth-century ascetic who founded a great monastery in the desert by the River Jordan, guiding many monks in a strict rule of poverty, silence, and prayer, and was counted among the great elders of the Palestinian desert.

  Name days: Gerasimos, Gerasim

• Paul and Juliana

  Martyr, Παύλος

  Sts. Paul and Juliana were brother and sister from Ptolemais in Phoenicia who suffered under the emperor Aurelian in the third century. Arrested for confessing Christ, they endured cruel tortures; tradition relates that several of their guards, among them Stratonikos, Kodratos and Akakios, were converted by their steadfastness and were martyred with them.

• Gregory of Constantia and Adrianos

  Hierarch, Γρηγόριος

  St. Gregory was Bishop of Constantia (ancient Salamis) in Cyprus, remembered in the Greek synaxaria together with St. Adrianos. Tradition relates that he shepherded his flock with wisdom and reposed in peace.

• Gregory of Assos

  Hierarch, Γρηγόριος της Άσσου

  St. Gregory was born on the island of Lesbos and became Bishop of Assos on the coast of Asia Minor, probably in the twelfth century. Tradition relates that he was a man of great humility and prayer who, driven from his see by slander, returned to Lesbos and founded a monastery, where he reposed in peace.

• Daniel of Moscow

  Saint, Δανιήλ της Μόσχας

  St. Daniel was the youngest son of St. Alexander Nevsky and the first prince of Moscow, living in the second half of the thirteenth century. He ruled with gentleness, avoiding bloodshed among the quarreling princes, and founded the monastery near Moscow that still bears his name.

• Gerasimos of Vologda

  Venerable, Γεράσιμος της Βολογκντά

  St. Gerasimos was a monk of Kiev who in the twelfth century traveled north to the forests of Vologda, where he built a church of the Holy Trinity and founded a monastery. Tradition relates that he was a hieromonk of great gentleness and that he labored among the settlers of the region until his repose in 1178.

• Basil of Rostov

  Saint, Βασίλειος του Ροστώβ

  St. Basil (Vasilko) was Prince of Rostov in the thirteenth century. Captured by the Mongols after the battle on the river Sit in 1238, he refused to renounce Christ or to serve the invaders, and was put to death.